India won two honours at the 95th Academy Awards, making history. During the Oscars in 2023, RRR’s song Naatu Naatu won Best Original Song while Guneet Monga’s The Elephant Whisperers won Best Documentary Short Subject. The triumphant victory for India sparked debate in the Parliament. After a Rajya Sabha MP commented on RRR’s Oscar victory, there was a debate in Parliament about Bollywood against the South. Read on for more updates on the actress Jaya Bachchan.
Rajya Sabha lawmakers thanked The Elephant Whisperers and Naatu Naatu from RRR for their Oscar victories. Legendary actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan praised the outcome and expressed her happiness that the topic of the country’s most significant ambassadors—the movie stars—is being discussed. She doesn’t care if the victors are from the North, East, South, or West as long as they are Indians because she belongs to a proud cinematic fraternity. Also, She represents my film fraternity, which has won numerous honours and frequently represented this nation, with pride and dignity. She continued by mentioning SS Rajamouli and Satyajit Ray.
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Jaya Bachchan thanked the nation’s audience, saying that it is thanks to them that people abroad are beginning to recognise us. She boasted that this is just the beginning and that this country, not America, is where the movie business is. A number of Rajya Sabha members concurred that Naatu Naatu and The Elephant Whisperers were India’s triumph. However, some noted that it was simply a triumph for the south. When MDMK lawmaker Vaiko told the assembly that AR Rahaman. He is a Tamil Nadu native and had won the best song award before RRR, Jaya Bachchan’s remark set up a Bollywood vs. South dispute. Moreover, RRR is a Telugu movie containing the well-known Telugu song Naatu Naatu.
The Elephant Whisperers, which was helmed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga, was filmed at Ooty, Tamil Nadu, according to AIADMK leader M Thambi Durai. And he takes great satisfaction in the fact that he is a Tamil Nadu native. The South vs. Bollywood dispute will always exist, whether it be in Parliament or the movie industry. Although the barriers between the two businesses are dissolving. And the film fraternity is working on one Indian Cinema people prefer to conjure the gap.
